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Re: [Orekit Developers] Distribution of orekit-python "egg"

Hi Luc,

Good to hear, I think it is good with an easy-entry to the orekit through python.

I really don't know much about the licensing stuff.

- My work in this process is rather minimal, issuing the right command line parameters.
- The JCC tool that I use for wrapping is under apache 2.0 license as well. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/JCC/
- orekit and common maths library are included in the egg. (common math assumed to be under apache as well)

Microsoft compiler has been used in the process, but as I understand this does not affect the licensing?

Please send me the paper and I can understand it better, I am not really clear right now what the actual content of the authorization is about.

Regards
/Petrus




On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:04 AM, MAISONOBE Luc <luc.maisonobe@c-s.fr> wrote:
Hi Petrus,

Petrus Hyvönen <petrus.hyvonen@gmail.com> a écrit :


Hi,

This is mostly a legal/policy question,

Would the license of orekit allow and would it be preferred that I create
some python "eggs" (python installer packages) for orekit?

The license allow it and it would be interesting to do.



I am using JCC to
wrap orekit java library so it is accessible from standard python. All
instructions needed are on the orekit wiki.

After an update to python 2.7 and rebuilding of the wrapping, I realized
that there is some caveats involved on at least windows operating system
(such that you need microsoft visual C installed) to create the wrapping,
but not to run it.  When built I can easily make the eggs that could be put
on the orekit or other webpage and easily installed, without the need of
that compiler etc.

If you want it and if you choose to have all additional wrapping code and packaging distributed under the sames terms as Orekit, i.e. the Apache 2 Software License, then yes, we could host them here in the main Orekit site. You would of course be credited for that. Before we can really distribute your work, we would ask you to sign a Individual Contributor License Agreement which basically say you authorize us to distribute what you did. We follow exactly the same process as the Apache Software Foundation for that. I can send you the template of the paper.

Thanks
Luc



Let me know what you think
/Petrus




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